Responding to the King’s Fund Social Care 360 report RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said:
“Social care has long been the forgotten part of the health and care system. Today thousands of people well enough to leave are occupying hospital beds due to a lack of suitable care at home or in the community, while patients being treated in hospital corridors has become routine.
“At the heart of this is a social care system with funding falling increasingly short while the number of nursing staff is not keeping pace with demand. We must urgently see investment to boost the community nursing workforce, or the pressures on the NHS will only get worse and the most vulnerable in society will continue to pay the price.”
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